The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-05-03

Honolulu upon receiving the sum of
forty dollars, and in any other district
the sum of twenty dollars.
Section ,. No such license shall
authorize the Iieensee to import, sell
or furnish opium or any preparation
thereof except on the prescription of
a duly qualified physician.
section 8. The Board of Health by
its president may authorize any duly
qualified physician or surgeon or any
licensees under this Act to enter OPT
um and preparations thereof at the
Custom House on the payment OF the
duties thereon, anything in the Act
approved on the Sth of August 1874
entitled An Act to restrict the i'm
portation and sale of opium and pre-
parations thereof to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Section 6. Any person who shall
import, sell or furnish any poisonous
drug without license, or contrary to
the provisions of this Act shall be
fined not less than fifty nor more than
five hundred dollars or to be impris-
oned at hard labor not exceeding SIX
months in the discretion of the Court.
Nothing In this Act contained shall
be construed to prevent the Govern
ment or the Board of Health from i'm
porting any drugs or medicines
Section 6. The provisions of Chap
ter LXXXYIII Of the Penal Code
shall apply to all persons holding
licenses under this Act"
Chapter LXXXVII1 Of the Penal
Code referred to in the last mentioned
Act regulates the sale of deadly poi
sons and prescribes the manner in
which records shall be kept by per-
sons selling the same, and Section 4
enacts that:
Every licensed physician, druggist
or apothecary who shall compound,
sell or deliver any prescription con-
tanning any poisonous drug or sub
stance deleterious to human life, to be
used as medicine, shall enter upon his
books said prescription written out in
full with the date thereof, with his
own name appended thereto, or the
name of the physician who prescribed
the same and the person to whom the
same was delivered and no such pre-
scription shall be compounded, sold
or delivered unless the name of the
person compounding, selling or deliy-
ering the same, or the name of the
physician prescribing the same be ap-
pended to the prescription in full, and
every such prescription shall be pre-
served and said books and prescrip-
tions shall be subject at all times to
the Minister of the Interior or his
agent"
5. Any person violating the provi-
sions of this chapter shall forfeit a sum
not exceeding one thousand dollars
for each offense.
In the session of 1880 another Act
was passed relating to Chinese physi-
clans, who were thereby allowed to re-
ceive licenses to practice medicine
subject to the same laws and restric-
tions as other licensed physicians"
1t would seem that the effect of the
law, Chapter XIV of 1880, was to re
move some of the restrictions of the
law of 1874, and allowed licenses to be
issued to persons outside the physi-
clans mentioned in that law to sell
poisonous drugs, and sell and furnish
opium OF its preparations to persons
having prescriptions from dny duly
qualified physician.
And it would also seem that all per
sons dealing in poisonous drugs, OF
which there can be no doubt opium is
one, were compelled to keep records
of sales, etc.
And that no physician or surgeon
could sell or prescribe or furnish
opium or preparations to any person
g IN tie habit Of smoking or otherwise using
tie same"
And also that in consideration OF
the license fee the persons licensed
could send for opium themselves, and
the Board of Health were relieved
from the necessity of importing it.
We now come to the law of 1886
entitled "An Act to regulate the i'm
portation and sale of opium In this
Kingdom"
This Act repeals all laws and parts
! of laws inconsistent with it.
Its provisions are as follows
Section 1. The Minister of the In
terror is hereby authorized, with the
consent of HIS Majesty the King IL
/ Cabinet Council, to grant to some one
applying therefor a license to import
and sell opium or any preparation Of
,opium in this Kingdom upon the said
Minister of the Interior receiving fo1
such license the sum of thirty thou.
sand dollars for each year.
Section 2. Before the license pro
vided for in this Act is issued the per
son or persons who have obtained the
same shall make and execute and de
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